[systemd-devel] Seeing logging as user

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Nov 29, 2013 2:18 AM, "Cecil Westerhof" <Cecil.Westerhof at snow.nl> wrote:
>
> On 11/29/2013 12:43 AM, Garry T. Williams wrote:
>>
>> On 11-29-13 00:15:47 Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html#Access%20Control
>>>
>>>
>>> What if I want this user to also see the log of for example cron?
>>
>>
>> According to that link, you need to add the user to the
>> systemd-journal group.
>
>
> Then the user will see all messages I think. I mean its own messages and
cron, but nothing else.

The journal has two modes of separating messages - by login session's
owner, and by the uid of the process itself.

Your cronjobs do not run in a systemd-logind session (though they could),
but they /do/ run with your uid, so you would be able to see them in the
split-by-uid mode at least.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/attachments/20131129/2d2ee0be/attachment.html>